Monday (late nite)
Another day has passed by. I've been visiting my
grandparents and little (tho he prefers "younger") brother
in Panama City this weekend. It's been nice, I guess...nice
as being away from the fiancee and one's projects can be. I
hate to travel, but I love to move. Weird, huh?

Gabber is coming along nicely and I've learned a lot about
gtk--. It is an excellent adaptation of the gtk+ toolkit.
The sigc++ signaling
toolkit is great and I have even integrated it into
jabberoo. It's excellent for doing any kind of event based
system that neats strong typing and/or ref-counted objects.

Another great lib I found is the Views Template Library
(VTL). I'll have to post that link later. Basically it's
another layer of abstraction that allows you to view a
container via multiple views. Hence, you can view the
container as sorted by a certain key, w/o having to
actually sort the container (of course, you trade
performance for lesser memory).

I do like C++. I know some people complain that it's too
complicated, or too slow, or too low-level. *shrug*. It
works for me and I believe it's a language that's gonna
stick around because of its complexity and richness. I
would be remiss to not quote graydon's
excellent summary of the language:

"C++ is the mecha godzilla of the programming world: learn
to pilot it, and you will be able to lay serious waste to
tokyo. Don't learn to pilot it, and king seesar will whup
your sorry ass."